Sentences with phrase «industry as a character actor»

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Some things that probably factor into the industry's disagreement: Peter Jackson adapted books fifty years old and respected as great literature, the Potter books were being written alongside the first movies; Lord of the Rings centered on adult characters and played to a wider audience with PG - 13 ratings, the first Potter movies were PG, skewed younger, and starred kids (though anyone can see the films matured and so did the fans, many already wrote the series off); finally, where Jackson provided one distinct vision and a cast of respected performers, Potter had a rotating director roster (all of them secondary to Rowling) and limited opportunities for its accomplished actors, giving the brunt of the work to the three kids and spectacle.

This man has spent the last two decades of his life working as one of the industry's most in - demand character actors, but he started out as a member of the Seattle Repertory Theatre.

He was reportedly one of the more flamboyant characters of the industry with a fiery temperament, courting other strong personalities like director Michael Winner and actors Shelley Winters and Charles Bronson, who regarded him as akin to the old bosses of the studio system.

For an industry that's always trying to emphasize the universality of white stories and how relatable it is for us to see characters as, «just like, human» it's very telling that they don't offer the same rhetoric for a film that's primarily black actors.

Despite having a big question mark in the script department, Assassin's Creed seems to have a lot going for it: New Regency, the production company behind the Oscar - winning films 12 Years a Slave and Birdman, is producing the film; fantastic actor Michael Fassbender (X-Men: First Class) is playing the lead role of Callum Lynch (a character created specifically for the film); and seasoned actor Jeremy Irons joined the cast as Abstergo Industries leader, and father to Marion Cotillard's character, Alan Rikkin.